streamwise

adj

streamwise

adj

Etymology From stream + -wise.

1

In the direction of a stream

AEROFOIL. The name given to the lifting wing or, more correctly, to the shape of a streamwise section through such a wing.1976, Ian Naismith Sneddon, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Mathematics for Engineers and Applied Scientists, →ISBN, page 9:

Derived terms: streamwisely

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